All posts tagged "The Pirate Bay"

It seems that The Pirate Bay has been on and off for the better part of the last decade since its inception back in 2003.
The servers of the notorious pirating website, The Pirate Bay, as well as its related forum domains have been raided and seized by Swedish police. This comes after years of court cases, arrests, and domain blacklistings from authorities across the globe.
TorrentFreak's sources confirm that the police seized control of servers, computers, and other equipment.
TorrentFreak reports that the local authorities have in fact confirmed that there has been a raid, with Paul Pintér, police national...

Sweden's Pirate Party, after continued pressure from a domestic anti-piracy group, has decided to discontinue its hosting of The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most popular file sharing website that has been making copyrighted material freely available since 2001.
Being internationally infamous does not help TPB, with many countries not willing to (or dissuaded by international pressure) to host the site. While no one knows for sure the exact location of the pirates, according to TorrentFreak, it has been traced to Scandinavia, courtesy of the Swedish Pirate Party. This prompted Sweden's Rights Alliance, which represents the entertainment industry, to...

Trolling, probably. You've heard The Pirate Bay's annoucement that it will be experimenting with low orbit server drones to make its service impervious to Hollywood’s threats. Oft-facetious, it wouldn't surprise us if The Pirate Bay were just scaremongering, but could it actually work?
Maybe, but putting such an idea into practice is still a ways off. The world record for a battery powered hover drone in laboratory conditions is currently held by the md4-1000 hover drone which managed to hover for 88 minutes.
Quite a bit longer than that, the AscTec Pelican by Ascending Technologies managed a record breaking 12...